The Minor Counties Championship 1905

95 MATCH NUMBER 69 : NORTHUMBERLAND V BEDFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 August 1905 Result: Match drawn – Northumberland won on first innings Points: Northumberland 2 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: Not known Debutants: Northumberland 1 (H Arkle); Bedfordshire none First day score: Northumberland 391; Bedfordshire 125-2 wickets (H J J Hodgkins 37*, R W Rice 23*) Northumberland * F G H Clayton c Hodgkins b Morcom 0 (7) run out 1 F W Gillespie hit wicket b Orr 53 (2) b Morcom 17 Richardson, O b Morcom 17 (3) b Wharmby 5 Marshall, J c Rice b Brown 89 (4) not out 61 A Simpson c Wharmby b Brown 59 (5) c Apthorp b Morcom 3 C M Skinner c Brown b Morcom 37 (1) c Apthorp b Morcom 6 G Simpson c Apthorp b Wharmby 82 (6) c Apthorp b Morcom 55 W Seymour b Morcom 0 (8) not out 12 H Arkle c Hodgkins b Orr 15 Elsey, G c Hodgkins b Orr 15 + Greenwood, L not out 1 Extras w 2, nb 1 23 w 4 9 Total 391 (6 wickets declared) 169 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 39 143 209 240 340 340 369 382 391 Second innings 17 29 29 35 125 129 - - - - Wharmby 24 4 50 1 - - (1) 13 3 26 1 - - Morcom 25 2 108 4 2 1 (2) 19 3 77 4 2 - Brown 21 2 84 2 - - (3) 5 1 31 0 - - Moss 9 1 40 0 - - (5) 2 2 0 0 - - King 6 0 32 0 - - Orr 10.4 1 54 3 - - (4) 8 1 26 0 2 - Extras - - 23 0 - - - - 9 1 - - Total 95.4 10 391 10 2 1 47 10 169 6 4 0 Bedfordshire H J J Hodgkins c Marshall b Elsey 47 (5) not out 36 Pollitt, G b Elsey 0 Wharmby, G E c Elsey b Arkle 56 (2) b Elsey 0 R W Rice c Marshall b Elsey 23 * H R Orr c Marshall b Elsey 0 (1) c Gillespie b Richardson 52 Brown, T A c Clayton b Skinner 29 (7) not out 4 W E King b Marshall 18 H Holdstock not out 27 (4) st Greenwood b Richardson 22 A F Morcom b G Simpson 18 (3) c Marshall b Elsey 0 Rev R H Moss c Gillespie b G Simpson 0 (6) c Elsey b Arkle 17 + E E Apthorp b Arkle 14 Extras w 1, nb 4 25 nb 2 5 Total 257 (5 wickets) 136 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 90 129 139 149 257 Second innings 1 1 75 84 131 - - - - - Skinner 9 0 49 1 - - (2) 5 0 13 0 - - Elsey 26 6 77 4 - 4 (1) 13 2 20 2 - 2 G Simpson 14 4 28 2 - - (6) 5 1 17 0 - - Arkle 16.2 4 53 2 1 - (3) 7 1 31 1 - - Marshall 13 1 25 1 - - (4) 5 0 14 0 - - Richardson (5) 8 3 36 2 - - Extras - - 25 0 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 78.2 15 257 10 1 4 43 7 136 5 0 2 Notes: This return match was drawn with Northumberland winning on first innings, after the follow-on had not been enforced. The Northumberland second innings declaration left Bedfordshire 105 minutes to get 304 runs. Bedfordshire had won when the two teams met at Dunstable in June. For the home side, there were 15 fours and 6 fours respectively in Marsh all’s two innings of 89 and 61 not out, and 14 fours and 10 fours in G Simpson’s 82 and 55. A Simpson’s 59 contained 2 sixes and 7 fours, and Gillespie’s 53 included 7 fours. In the Northumberland first innings, Gillespie and Marshall added 104 runs for th e third wicket and Skinner and G Simpson 100 for the sixth. For Bedfordshire, Wharmby’s 56 included 8 fours and Orr’s 52 also contained 8 fours. The match aggregate of 953 runs was the third highest of the season. The 185 runs conceded by Morcom in the match were the third highest during the season. When he had scored 54 in the Northumberland first innings, G Simpson reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. Hodgkins reached the same milestone when he had scored 31 in the Bedfordshire first innings. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Bedfordshire first innings fall of sixth to ninth wickets.] Sources: Newcastle Daily Chronicle 17,18 August; Newcastle Daily Journal 17,18 August; Newcastle Evening Chronicle 16 August; Newcastle Evening Mail 16 August; Bedfordshire Mercury 25 August; Bedfordshire Standard 25 August; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 26 August; Sporting Life 17,18 August.